Symmetric encryption with ssh-agent

I recently published libagentcrypt, a lightweight open source library for symmetric encryption using ssh-agent. The library relies on libsodium and also includes a small general purpose command line program that can encrypt and decrypt files or text using ssh keys, including those made available to a remote host through ssh agent forwarding. I am posting it here because I think it may be of interest to OpenWRT users.

The library is maintained on github at

The documentation is at https://ndilieto.github.io/libagentcrypt

The command line utility resembles gzip, except it encrypts/decrypts instead of compressing/decompressing. The man page is at
https://ndilieto.github.io/libagentcrypt/agentcrypt.1.html

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